Helping assess how Wisconsin and the country can adapt to a changing climate is one of the jobs for Stephen Vavrus, senior scientist at the Nelson Institute's Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. »Read Full Article

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First, it hasn't been proven that the increase in CO2 is the cause of global warming since the earth has been warming since the late 1700's, long before CO2 levels began to increase. Secondly, for every negative effect of global warming cited so often in the press, there are more beneficial effects. Global warming will open vast areas of Canada and Russia to agriculture that haven't been productive until the climate warms. CO2 increases help plants grow faster and healthier. The increased rainfall decreases the need for irrigation and helps replenish aquifers that have been depleted over the last hundred years. The warming of Greenland is opening up areas for mining and oil exploration that haven't been accessible previously. The southern region of the Sahara desert are becoming suitable for grazing again. There are many other benefits of global warming that the liberal press totally ignores as well. More people will benefit from global warming than will be harmed by it. The liberal scare mongers would have you believe the earth is doomed while just the opposite is happening.

You climate change deniers can't pass up an opportunity to display your ignorance, can you? The fossil fuel industry has won this one, and we'll all pay the price. So be it. BTW, Belius, Earth is the name of your home planet and as such should be capitalized.

How can this 'unstoppable warming from climate change" be real and true and worth all the sacrifice for costly CO2 mitigation, when Obama himself didn't say a single word about the "CRISIS" in his STATE OF THE UNION ADDRE.The majority of voters now are former believers so you lazy copy and paste editors are jokes for the history books.

It's all about brainwashing, play the numbers to make the $$..it is as phony as a $3.00 bill. Maybe that is why it has been so cold this winter ...:[..from what I hear the glaciers are all growing again, now you don't hear anything about that in the mainstream media....!!!!